Distribution of Legionella pneumophila bacteria and Naegleria and Hartmannella amoebae in thermal saline baths used in balneotherapy

Parasitology Research

Volumn 112, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 77-83

  Zbikowska, Elzbieta ^a   Walczak, MacIej ^a   Krawiec, Arkadiusz ^a  

^a NICOLAUS COPERNICUS UNIVERSITY   (Poland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SODIUM CHLORIDE;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIUM DETECTION; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; HARTMANNELLA; LEGIONELLA PNEUMOPHILA; NAEGLERIA FOWLERI; NONHUMAN; PARASITE IDENTIFICATION; PH MEASUREMENT; PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY; POLAND; POPULATION ABUNDANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SALINITY; SPA TREATMENT; SPECIES COEXISTENCE; SPECIES DISTRIBUTION; TEMPERATURE SENSITIVITY; WATER SAMPLING;

BALNEOLOGY; BATHS; HARTMANNELLA; HUMANS; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION, FLUORESCENCE; LEGIONELLA PNEUMOPHILA; NAEGLERIA FOWLERI; POLAND; SALINITY; TEMPERATURE; WATER; WATER MICROBIOLOGY;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); HARTMANNELLA; LEGIONELLA PNEUMOPHILA; NAEGLERIA; NAEGLERIA FOWLERI;

EID: 84872286323     PISSN: 09320113     EISSN: 14321955     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00436-012-3106-4     Document Type: Article

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